Contour now prints on metal itself with two Mimaki UV printers: images, text and designs on sheet metal parts, without volatile solvents.
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Contour introduces handheld laser welding for joining thin materials with minimal distortion and little post-processing.
Besides cutting and punching, this sheet metal fabrication machine can form shapes in the metal and deburr parts with a roller.
The production hall has been extended, the floor coated and the extension of our automatic sheet storage system from STOPA Anlagenbau GmbH put into operation.
Meanwhile at Contour: the automatic sheet storage system is growing from 530 to 770 pallet positions, with two new machines from Trumpf Nederland on the way.
We link production machines to ERP and planning systems in all kinds of ways, to automate order administration and show dashboards with management information.
WireSense and SeamTracking have widened the product range of our welding robot. We now use the electrode as a smart sensor!
The old foundation was not strong enough for the growth of our sheet metal center. A first look at the rebuild; production keeps running in the meantime.
Our colleague Daniel wrote a converter that moves our roughly 15,000 CNC bending programs to another machine in a few mouse clicks, with a 3D view.
A robot at our edge curling machine produces sheet metal parts unmanned and is already prepared for AGVs. This is how we automate physically heavy work.
Our colleagues coupled a cobot to a press brake. A cobot is programmed with a tablet and can be used for different processes.
An automation specialist would not start with grinding using a cobot. Our colleagues programmed the cobot themselves, and it has already produced thousands of parts.
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